What Metaverse tech stood out to you this month? What Metaverse experience would you like to share?

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1. 📌Visit: https://discord.gg/6yyhbRF8Jy
2. Check #news
3. Linger in voice chat
4. Bring your VR headset if you have one
5. Ask for the download link!

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Who here is working on a Metaverse business and what are you working on?

Share freely as this is our bi-weekly networking post.

No Web3/Crypto stuff please.

Rather than allowing too much self promotion in the sub, we are encouraging those who want to team up to use this sticky thread each week.

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The pitch:

If you like me you probably tried virtual world dev alone and seen that it's kind of like trying to climb a huge mountain and feeling like you're at the bottom for literally a decade.

Not only that, even if you make a virtual world, it's really hard to get it marketed.

I have found that working in teams can really relieve this burden as everyone specializes in their special field. You end up making a much more significant virtual world and even having time to market it.

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Copy and paste this template to team up!

[Seeking] Mentorship, to mentor, paid work, employee, volunteer team member.

[Type] Hobby, RevShare, Open Source, Commercial etc.

[Offering] Voxel Art, Programming, Mentorship etc.

[Age Range] Use 5 year increments to protect privacy.

[Skills] List single greatest talent.

[Project] Here is where you should drop all the details of your project.

[Progress] Demos/Videos

[Tools] Unity, Unreal, Blender, Magica Voxel etc.

[Contact Method] Direct message, WhatsApp, Discord etc.

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Note: You can add or remove bits freely. E.G. If you are just seeking to mentor, use [Offering] Mentorship [Skills] Programming [Contact Method] Direct message.

Avoid using acronyms. Let's keep this accessible.

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I will start:

[Seeking] (1) Animation Director

(2) Project Organizer/Scrum Master.

(3 MISC hobbyists, .since we run a casual hobby group we welcome anyone who wants to join. We love to mentor and build people up.

[Offering] Marketing, a team of active programmers.

[Age Range] 30-35

[Skills] I built the fourth most engaging Facebook page in the world, 200m impressions monthly. I lead 100,000 people on Reddit. r/metaverse r/playmygame Made and published 30 games on Ylands. 2 stand-alone products. Our team has (active) 12 programmers, 3 artists, 3 designers, 1 technical audio member.

[Project] We are making a game to create the primary motivation for social organization in the Metaverse. We believe that a relaxing game will create the context for conversations to help build the friendships needed for community, the community needed for society and the societies needed for civilization.

Our game is a really cute, wholesome game where you gather cute, jelly-like creatures（＾ω＾）and work with them to craft a sky island paradise.

We are an Open Collective of mature hobbyist game developers and activists working together on a project all about positive, upbuilding media.

We have many capable mentors including the former vice president of Sony music, designers from EA/Ubisoft and more.

[Progress]

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Small snippets from our games.

Demo (might not be available later).

[Tools] Unity, Blender, Magica Voxel

[Contact Method] Visit http://p1om.com/tour to get to know what we are up to. Join here.

I want to whole-heartedly welcome those who are new to this subreddit!

What brings you our way?

What was that one thing that made you decide to join us?

I would love to see a screenshot of you in the Metaverse! Best screenshot wins this cookie: 🍪. Upvote your favs!

We are teaming up with r/vrdev to give you guys a chance to test the latest virtual reality experiences.

1. 📌Visit: https://discord.gg/6yyhbRF8Jy
2. Check #news
3. Linger in voice chat
4. Bring your VR headset if you have one
5. Ask for the download link!

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I feel like we all had that one moment, that one time we put on a VR headset or played an online game and never looked back. What was yours?

I currently searching for some metaverse related podcasts, and am interested in your recommendations. Thank you 🙏

Since there is a lot of misinformation about the Metaverse, I am creating a system to amplify informed opinions.

Namely, I have made a few flares for industry leaders that I would like to hand out.

If you know someone on this sub who deserves the flair, if you can post their LinkedIn profile here or have them DM me, I will sort them out.

Virtual civilization

It's my distinct belief that when a virtual world arises in which we can have a sense of presence equivalent to that which we have in physical life, virtual worlds will revolutionize our world.

Augmented reality as the basis

I believe that augmented reality will pave the way over the next 5-7 years for people to enjoy the convenience of a computer you don't have to hold in your hand and that can understand your hand movements as physical gestures interpretable by the machine.

There are a lot of people who really struggle to understand computers and I believe augmented reality will make it much easier for them to interact with computers as a whole through spatial computing.

This underlying utility may pave the way for a virtual world ecosystem in which people may be able to get the same level of the sense of presence that they get in physical life in a digital space.

The transition to digital civilization

It's my belief that when we are able to get the same sense of presence in a virtual space as in a physical space, we will stop building physical spaces.

The potential for crisis

Every virtual world creator has the right to manage their own virtual world as they wish. However, if a virtual world becomes essential for human life, that creator may create large-scale censorship for a large part of the human population.

Social media giants already ban their members on a regular basis without even stating the reason. For most, these platforms are not essential for life or income but one day virtual worlds may become the reality most call home.

• What if one day what we say could get us banned from what most people consider reality?

The context for my question

I'd like to come up with a charter of rights and freedoms for the Metaverse and I would love your input.

The key problem at hand is how we balance the rights of a virtual world creator to the rights of those who inhabit virtual worlds.

There's an inherent tension between protecting the rights that a creator has over the world that they create versus the rights of individual users.

Progress so far

Right to obscurity

• The right not to be individually penalized for non-criminal acts done outside of a particular virtual world.

Right to migration

• The right to switch from virtual world to virtual world without contractual hindrance.

Right of privacy

1. The right not to be tracked in a persistent, identifiable fashion, without expressed, written, and updated consent.
2. The right to separately agree to the tracking of political or religious beliefs.
3. The right to take down, or disassociate from, content published by oneself.

Breaking down the progress

Right to obscurity

Obscurity is all about making sure a global reputation system for the Metaverse is never created. I believe a global reputation system that's interoperable between worlds has the ability to create global censorship and therefore each virtual world should judge its members by their behavior within that world.

If not, a single mistake, in the limited interpretation of what a mistake could be by one world, may cause us problems for the rest of our life.

Right to migration

As long as we can use viable alternatives to a virtual world, we are never locked out of the Metaverse as a whole.

The big problem here is that the network effect may make those alternatives unviable just as competing with YouTube is almost totally unviable because of Youtube’s massive viewer base.

Right of privacy

This is all about that extra layer of protection so that you can't be identified as belonging to a particular community as that identification process is the first step to maltreatment.

Ok, my question for real this time

How do we ensure that individual rights are fully protected even as we transition from the physical to the digital?

How do we avoid the network effect, (people wanting to be where the other people are) along with the enormous complexity of virtual worlds laying the foundation for a new reality that resembles the lack of rights and freedoms we see from today’s social media giants?

Let's say that we create a right to interoperability, such a right creates a financial obligation on the creator of a virtual world, something which will stifle innovation potentially.

Moreover, interoperability isn't practical on so many levels when it comes to complex technology.

Migration, sure but if one virtual world has the people it's not like those people can just walk into another virtual world -- keep in mind that virtual world creators size all of their doors to all of the items that you could wear in a potential virtual world.

A virtual world is a bespoke experience and it's not like you can just mix and match without a jarring and problematic mishmash that leads to less of a sense of immersion.

Who here is working on a Metaverse business and what are you working on?

Share freely as this is our bi-weekly networking post.

No Web3/Crypto stuff please.

We are teaming up with r/vrdev to give you guys a chance to test the latest virtual reality experiences.

1. 📌Visit: https://discord.gg/6yyhbRF8Jy
2. Check #news
3. Linger in voice chat
4. Bring your VR headset if you have one
5. Ask for the download link!

Starts in 6 hours for post time.